Walter Francis White risked his life to document lynchings in the Jim Crow era

Walter Francis White was a Black civil-rights investigator whose white appearance—blonde hair, blue eyes, pale skin—allowed him to infiltrate white supremacist environments during the height of racial terror in the early 20th century. He risked his life repeatedly by posing as a white man to gather eyewitness accounts of lynchings, mob planning, and law enforcement complicity.

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